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Your Gift to Your Children and the World
September 15, 2016 Can you guess the single most searched-for topic on ourUFI website? Our most frequently viewed Guide to Family Issues? If you guessed “Divorce,” you would be right. If you are searching for answers regarding your marriage, you are not alone....
Your Voice is Needed on Human-Animal Research
The human-animal cross-species are called “chimeras,” after the Greek mythology creature that was part lion, part goat, and part snake. Last September the NIH abruptly suspended support of chimera research while they reviewed the ethical implications. The agency...
Good News about School Restrooms
Parents, students, and teachers across the United States expressed concern about the “Dear Colleague Letter” sent out earlier this year by the Obama administration, requiring schools to allow students to use restrooms and locker rooms “consistent with their gender...
The Most Powerful Back-to-School Supplies
For many families a new school year brings excitement and new challenges - including the tug and pull of “what Teacher says” versus what Mom or Dad says - or the even stronger riptide of what friends may say or do. Take a deep breath parents, YOU are still the #1...
Abortion distortion at the supreme court
It was a little over one year ago that we learned the unthinkable reality of abortion, as several undercover videos by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) began to be released. One by one, these videos unveiled Planned Parenthood’s gruesome practice of harvesting...
Welcome to our New Home
We listened to your suggestions, and we are excited to announce that United Families International (UFI) has a new Home! Home-page, that is, and it comes with an entirely new website jam-packed with helpful resources and information on family issues. We invite you to...
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The Law of Unintended Consequences
For those like us, who value the family, the inability to have a child is a heavy burden. Infertility is a very real challenge for many couples. In the US alone, one in eight couples have difficulty conceiving or sustaining a pregnancy. Many of you reading this may be...
Raising Kids in the Technological Age
By Erin Weist We live in a new time. The generation raising children now is doing something absolutely new that no one in the history of the entire world has done before: They are raising children with unprecedented amount of information streaming into their homes...
Your Role in Defending the Family
By Marci Nelson I get it. You want to help, but you don’t think you can make much of a difference. You’re a college student, a mother, a father, a grandparent. You don’t have the money, the resources, or the time to get involved. We avoid watching the news because it...
How to Make a Human
How to Make a Human: The Startling Advancements in Embryonic Science and How They Could Affect Generations Yet Unborn By Elise Ellsworth On December 8, 2017, Amnesty International hosted a conference: “Crossing Frontiers: Moving the Boundaries of Human Reproduction.”...
Fathers: Doing More, Challenged More, Needed More Than Ever.
By McKayla Skinner There are currently an estimated 70.1 million fathers in the United States. Most of them consider their role as a father as core to their identity. However, fathers face great challenges , as well as opportunities, as they decide what matters most...
Female
By Breaunna Stone A few weeks ago I was scrolling through iTunes looking at what new songs were at the top of the charts. Keith Urban’s song “Female” stood out to me. I clicked the play preview and got goose bumps as I listened to the words: “When you hear somebody...
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